High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-17125
CVE-2017-17125
Description
nm.c and objdump.c in GNU Binutils 2.29.1 mishandle certain global symbols, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (_bfd_elf_get_symbol_version_string buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted ELF file.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
1- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-17nvdThird Party Advisory
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